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Why do we not have this yet?
Its 2025 so many employees' work part time, different days, different hours, its becoming a payroll nightmare!

We have this in the UK with payroll but it does not correctly calculate the hours to pay when unpaid leave is taken or if the beginning/end of the month is a non working day or weekend and there has been a change Xero doesn't pay the employee for the full month. This means we have to do manual adjustments (if we spot it is wrong) See help desk call CX0016738686 - Xero does not calculate the employee pay correctly. Hopefully they are fixing this so it works correctly for you.

can't wait for this feature to be available in Australia!

This feature is available within the UK and NZ (i believe) systems, but not Australia? Given the back end software development work has already been done for those countries, surely Xero can speed up the introduction of this feature for Australian customers? It has been highly requested for many years.

It looks like the approach from Xero in AU is try and get people to by the rostering solution to try and resolve this issue as it has some features which people are screaming for in this thread (and several other like i). I tried out the rostering solution in beta. Perhaps it could work for a large organisation with many employees and complex rostering needs or where rostering is critical. We own a hair salon and it would just add significant work. Half of our employees are part time. Time and attendance and leave management is useless in Xero without work patterns. You cannot even get staff to apply for leave. It just doesnt work. Who would have thought in 2025 where you have an AI agent that can help you with invoicing yet you need to manage your staff work patterns in a separate system and work out leave requests with a calculator.

Need this. I'm currently checking out other software.

Thanks Daniel

We're moving to Odoo. Setup with minimal features and it can be a similar cost. Or you can set it up with more of its ERP features and it can do a lot!

I agree Daniel, Xero seems to be ignoring our feedback. Can I ask which you are moving too?

I commented on this thread a while back and so have many people. This is a crucial function for our business. Unfortunately there appears to be no movement from Xero. So, we've taken the decision to leave Xero and move to a different software platform that has this and other capabilities out of the box (like Sales Orders which has its own thread just like this one).

90% of our staff are part-time. It's hard to keep track of everyone's hours in separate spreadsheets. Having this feature in Xero will make it much easier to manage and ensure the correct hours are paid each day.

As a lot of businesses like ours are moving to 4 day work weeks for all their employees this is an absolutely critical feature!

So important! And seems an easy programmatic fix. There is no real life scenario where any business would want 20% of the work hours of a part time employee applied for a given local holiday. It makes no sense and has no basis in reality. Please prioritize this as your work around of editing the hours one employee at a time cannot be implemented on any significant scale.

This feature should be available in Australia. Why hasnt it been rolled out with other regions ?

This is a critical feature that should have been implemented as a matter of priority. UK and NZ have this feature, so i am perplexed why it cannot be rolled out to suit Australian payroll.

We only have 4 part-timers but it is annoying that the public holidays and leave have to be manually adjusted every time.

This is now available in NZ under the Employment Information Tab for Employees. There is now an option to add pay and work patterns.

I am not sure about Australia, but it would pay to check as the change was not widely promoted, and I found it by accident.

very important to select specific days for part time employees who works certain days in the week, which fall on public holiday.
As currently if (for example) the employee works on Tuesday & Wednesday and a public holiday fall in that week on Monday, the system automatically add the public holiday rate and payment, however he doesn't work on Monday! so I've to adjust it manually.

Would also be helpful for FT employees, particularly trades that work longer hours x4 and a shorter day at EOW.

this will be so timesaving if we can have this feature in Australia please